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Navy Midshipmen football
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The Navy Midshipmen football team represents the United States Naval Academy in NCAA Division I FBS college football. The Naval Academy completed its season as an FBS independent school in 2014. The team has coached by Ken Niumatalolo since December 2007. Navy has 19 players and three coaches in the College Football Hall of Fame and won the football national championship in 1926 according to the Boand. The 1910 team also was undefeated and unscored upon, the mascot is Bill the Goat. The Naval Academys football program is one of the nations oldest, there were two separate efforts to establish a Naval Academy football team in 1879. The first was guided by first-classman J. H. Robinson, the team played the sport under rules that made it much closer to soccer, where the players were permitted only to kick the ball in order to advance it. The second effort, headed by first-classman William John Maxwell was more successful in its efforts, Maxwell met with two of his friends, Tunstall Smith and Henry Woods, who played for the Baltimore Athletic Club and officially challenged their team to a game with the Naval Academy. A team was formed from academy first-classmen, which Maxwell led as a manager, trainer, the team would wake up and practice before reveille and following drill and meals. The squad received encouragement from some of the faculty, who allowed them to eat a late dinner and this was against the direct orders of the school superintendent, who had banned football and similar activities. The years sole contest was played on December 11 against the Baltimore Athletic Club, the oppositions team was reportedly composed of players from Princeton, Yale, Pennsylvania, and Johns Hopkins. The Naval Academy hosted the Baltimore team on a temporary field drawn on part of the cow pasture. Rules decided upon between the teams established that the game was to be played under rugby rules. The Baltimore American and Chronicle, which covered the contest, described it as such, The game, played rugby rules, was a battle from beginning to end—a regular knock down. Both sides became immediately excited and the audience was aroused to the highest pitch of enthusiasm by the spirited contest, the ball oscillated backward and forward over the ground without any material result. The scrimmages were something awful to witness—living, kicking, scrambling masses of humanity surging to and fro, each individual after the leather oval. If a Baltimorean got the ball and started for a run, he was caught by one of the brawny Cadets. The game was fought and was finally declared a scoreless tie by the referee about an hour after it began

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John A. Hartwell
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John Augustus Josh Hartwell was an American football player and coach, military officer, and physician. Hartwell attended Yale University, where he played end for Walter Camps Bulldogs football team from 1888 to 1891. In 1891, Hartwell was named an All-American for a season in which Yale was unbeaten, untied, unscored against, Hartwell graduated from Yale in 1892, holding both PhD and MD degrees, and began a career as a surgeon in New York City. He also continued with football as a coach, Hartwells 1895 Yale squad went 13–0–2 and was later recognized as a national champion by Parke H. Davis. In 1918, Hartwell was commissioned a major in the U. S. Army Medical Corps, from 1910 until his retirement in 1938, he was a professor of clinical surgery at Cornell University Medical College. Hartwell was a pioneer of thoracic surgery and a champion of safe. He was a well-known outdoorsman throughout his life and a friend, Hartwell was born on September 27,1869 in Deckertown, Sussex County, New Jersey to Samuel Slawson Hartwell, an 1859 graduate of Yale University, and Mary Clarinda Hartwell. John was one of four born to the couple. The elder Hartwell served as headmaster for a school, allowing for an easy education to be provided to the family. However, when John was twelve, his mother died, other members of the closely knit family came and helped the four children, converting the school building into a boarding house. The house provided the family with money to live on. While in secondary school, John began playing sports and developed a wish to enter the medical field, in 1885, Hartwell entered biology classes at Yale University, majoring in biology. In order to cover the cost of schooling, Hartwell took up a number of jobs, among them were participating in athletic tests, Hartwell also joined the freshman classs crew team. He was presented with prizes for the awards for Excellence in all the Studies of Freshman Year and Excellence in Physics, as well as being named a member of The Colony, Hartwell was relatively quiet his sophomore year, quitting the class crew team. However, he was very competitive in his studies. The following year, Hartwell rejoined the crew team and was elected as the junior class president. In his senior year, John Hartwell was elected as the vice president of the school Y. M. C. A. He became the right end of the Bulldogs football team

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Worden Field
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Worden Field is a large grass field located on the campus of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. First mentioned in 1890, the served as the home stadium for the academys Midshipmen football team from that year through 1923. Since the early 1900s, the field has hosted all of the various yearly parades. It has progressively grown smaller, due to the addition of buildings, the field is bordered on all four sides by small academy roads. On two of its sides, it is surrounded by officers quarters and is bounded by a parking lot and it has rows of bleachers located along its south side and has long contained a small gazebo on its east side. A small historical marker is located on the southwest corner, it is used regularly for drills, the field is named for Admiral John Lorimer Worden, who joined the navy in 1834. He was captured by the South at the start of the Civil War and he became captain of the ironclad USS Monitor and received considerable fame after its battle with the CSS Virginia at the Battle of Hampton Roads. Worden suffered eye injuries in the battle and gave up his command and he was the superintendent of the academy for five years, and died in 1897, a few years after the field was named after him. The Navy football team played its first game against the Baltimore Athletic Club in 1879, from that year throughout the 1880s, Navy played all but one of their games at home. Writers Taylor Baldwin Kiland and Jamie Howren stated that all of the played at Annapolis were likely hosted on an unused parade or drill field. During that period, the team amassed a record of thirteen wins, twelve losses, sometime around 1890, Worden Field began operation as the football teams home field. In that year, Navy went 4–1–1 at home, ending its season with a victory of Army in the first annual Army-Navy Game. The following year, the team played its entire seven-game schedule at home, winning the first five games, in 1892, coach Ben Crosby led Navy to a 4–2 record in games played on the field. The following years team, coached by John A. Hartwell, hosted its season on the field. The final game of season, the fourth Army-Navy Game. During the game, numerous violent fistfights occurred in the fields stands and it was not reinstated until 1899, at the insisting of Theodore Roosevelt, the former Assistant Secretary of the Navy and new Governor of New York. The game did not return to Annapolis, except for special reasons in 1942 during World War II, Worden Field is located on the western side of the academy campus, very close to both the Severn River and College Creek. It is bordered on its west and south sides by the officers quarters

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United States Naval Academy
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The United States Naval Academy is a four-year coeducational federal service academy in Annapolis, Maryland, United States. The entire campus is a National Historic Landmark and home to historic sites, buildings. It replaced Philadelphia Naval Asylum, in Philadelphia, that served as the first United States Naval Academy from 1838 to 1845 when the Naval Academy formed in Annapolis. Candidates for admission generally must both apply directly to the academy and receive a nomination, usually from a Member of Congress, students are officers-in-training and are referred to as midshipmen. Tuition for midshipmen is fully funded by the Navy in exchange for an active duty service obligation upon graduation, approximately 1,200 plebes enter the Academy each summer for the rigorous Plebe Summer, but only about 1,000 midshipmen graduate. The United States Naval Academy has some of the highest paid graduates in the according to starting salary. Midshipmen are required to adhere to the academys Honor Concept, the United States Naval Academys campus is located in Annapolis, Maryland, at the confluence of the Severn River and the Chesapeake Bay. In its 2016 edition, U. S. News & World Report ranked the U. S. Naval Academy as the No.1 public liberal arts college and tied for the 9th best overall liberal arts college in the U. S. In the category of High School Counselor Rankings of National Liberal Arts Colleges, Military Academy and the U. S. Air Force Academy, and is tied for the No.5 spot for Best Undergraduate Engineering program at schools where doctorates not offered. In 2016, Forbes ranked the U. S. Naval Academy as No.24 overall in its report Americas Top Colleges, nominations may be made by members of and delegates to Congress, the President or Vice-President, the Secretary of the Navy or certain other sources. Candidates must also pass a fitness test and a thorough medical exam as part of the application process. In the 21st century, there have been about 1,200 students in each new class of plebes, the U. S. government pays for tuition, room, and board. Midshipmen receive monthly pay of $1,017.00, as of 2015, from this amount, pay is automatically deducted for the cost of uniforms, books, supplies, services, and other miscellaneous expenses. Midshipmen only receive a portion of their pay in cash while the rest is released during firstie year. Midshipmen fourth-class to midshipmen second-class receive monthly stipends of $100, $200, $300, Midshipmen first-class receive the difference between pay and outstanding expenses. Students at the academy are addressed as Midshipman, an official military rank. The same term comprises both males and females, upon graduation, most naval academy midshipmen are commissioned as ensigns in the Navy or second lieutenants in the Marine Corps and serve a minimum of five years after their commissioning. If they are selected to serve as a pilot, they will serve 8–11 years minimum from their date of winging, Foreign midshipmen are commissioned into the armed forces of their native countries

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Annapolis, Maryland
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Annapolis is the capital of the U. S. state of Maryland, as well as the county seat of Anne Arundel County. Its population was measured at 38,394 by the 2010 census, the city served as the seat of the Continental Congress in 1783–84 and was the site of the 1786 Annapolis Convention and the Annapolis Peace Conference, held in 2007. Annapolis is the home of St. Johns College as well as the United States Naval Academy, a settlement in the Province of Maryland named Providence was founded on the north shore of the Severn River in 1649 by Puritan exiles from Virginia led by Governor William Stone. The settlers later moved to a harbor on the south shore. The settlement on the shore was initially named Town at Proctors, then Town at the Severn. In 1654, after the Third English Civil War, Parliamentary forces assumed control of Maryland, per orders from Charles Calvert, fifth Lord Baltimore, Stone returned the following spring at the head of a Cavalier force. On March 25,1655, in what is known as the Battle of the Severn, Stone was defeated, taken prisoner, Fendall governed Maryland during the latter half of the Commonwealth. In 1660, he was replaced by Phillip Calvert as fifth/sixth Governor of Maryland), Annapolis was incorporated as a city in 1708. Water trades such as oyster-packing, boatbuilding and sailmaking became the chief industries. Annapolis is home to a number of recreational boats that have largely replaced the seafood industry in the city. Dr. Alexander Hamilton was a Scottish-born doctor and writer who lived and worked in Annapolis, Annapolis became the temporary capital of the United States after the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783. For the 1783 Congress, the Governor of Maryland commissioned John Shaw, the flag is slightly different from other designs of the time. The blue field extends over the height of the hoist. Shaw created two versions of the flag, one started with a red stripe and another that started with a white one. In 1786, delegates from all states of the Union were invited to meet in Annapolis to consider measures for the regulation of commerce. Delegates from only five states—New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, New Jersey, the Philadelphia convention drafted and approved the Constitution of the United States, which is still in force. During this period, a prisoner of war camp, Camp Parole, was set up in Annapolis. As the war continued, the camp expanded to a location just west of the city

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Dickinson College
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Dickinson College is a private, residential liberal arts college in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, United States. They donated much of their personal libraries to the new college. With over 250 full-time faculty members and an enrollment of nearly 2,400 students, Dickinson has been recognized for its innovative curriculum and its approach to global education has received national recognition from the American Council on Education and NAFSA, Association of International Educators. The college was among six institutions profiled in depth in 2003 by NAFSA for Outstanding Campus Internationalization, in 2010, Dickinson received The Climate Leadership Award from the organization Second Nature for innovative and advanced leadership in education for sustainability…. Typically, Dickinson receives approximately 6,000 applications for its 615 spaces, upon successful completion of both portions of the program, students receive the B. S. degree from Dickinson in their chosen field and the B. S. in engineering from the engineering school. The Dickinson School of Law is located adjacent to the campus and was founded as its law department. It received an independent charter in 1890 and ended all affiliation with the college in 1917, in 2000 the Law School merged with the Pennsylvania State University. The Carlisle Grammar School was founded in 1773 as a frontier Latin school for males in western Pennsylvania. Within years Carlisles elite, especially James Wilson and John Montgomery, were pushing for development of the school as a college, as their conversation about founding a frontier college in Carlisle took place on his porch, Binghams Porch was long a rallying cry at Dickinson. Rush intended to name the college after the President of Pennsylvania John Dickinson and his wife Mary Norris Dickinson, proposing John, the Dickinsons had given the new college an extensive library which they jointly owned, one of the largest libraries in the colonies. The name Dickinson College was chosen instead, when founded, its location west of the Susquehanna River made it the westernmost college in the United States. For the first meeting of the trustees, held in April 1784, the trustees selected Dr. Charles Nisbet D. D. A Scottish minister and scholar, to serve as the Colleges first president and he arrived and began to serve on July 4,1785, serving until his unexpected death in 1804. A combination of financial troubles and faculty led to a college closing from 1816 to 1821. In 1832, when the trustees were unable to resolve a faculty curriculum dispute, the law school dates to 1833. It became a separate school 1890, although the law school, the law school is now affiliated with the Pennsylvania State University. Among the 18th-century graduates of Dickinson were Robert Cooper Grier and Roger Brooke Taney, who later became U. S. Supreme Court justices, during the 19th century, two noted Dickinson College alumni had prominent roles in the years leading up to the Civil War. They were James Buchanan, the 15th President of the United States, Taney led the Supreme Court in its ruling on the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision, which held that Congress could not prohibit slavery in federal territories, overturning the Missouri Compromise

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Lehigh Mountain Hawks football
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The Lehigh Mountain Hawks football program represents Lehigh University in college football. Lehigh competes as the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision level as members of the Patriot League, the Mountain Hawks play their home games at Goodman Stadium in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Andy Coen has served as the head coach since 2006. The program ranks 40th all-time in terms of wins with 680 for a percentage of 56%. Since 1945, the era, Lehigh has won at a 60% pace. Their won loss record against Lafayette since this time is also 60%, the Lehigh football program officially began in 1883 when student J. S. Robeson organized a football team to play against the University of Pennsylvanias sophomore class team. Athlete and future journalist Richard Harding Davis was a part of that squad, J. S. Robeson is the father of football at Lehigh, Davis recalled for the Lehigh Quarterly of 1891. In 1884, Lehighs intercollegiate team was formed, and Lafayette team captain Theodore Welles immediately approached Robeson to challenge them, at the start of the 2011 season, Lehigh is ranked among the institutions that have played the most games, compiled the most victories. Since 1986, Lehigh has been a member of the Patriot League. Lehigh has won ten Patriot League titles and has played in 20 post season games, along the way, Lehigh has won a Division II National Championship and has been national runner up in the I-AA tournament in 1979. Following the founding of the team, Lehigh, then known as the Engineers, was guided for the first eight years by volunteer coaches, the teams won 123 of those first 276 games, playing an average about 9 games per season. Lehigh’s first really successful period came in 1912 when Tom Keady was hired as head coach, during this period, Lehigh’s program grew stronger and the team moved into its new home, Taylor Stadium. Taylor Stadium would serve as the home for Lehigh football for 73 seasons Along with the Yale Bowl and Harvard Stadium, keady’s teams would go 55–22–3 during his nine years as head coach and produce many fine players, including All American quarterback Pat Pazzetti. The years between the end of World War I and the end of World War II were somewhat poor ones for Lehigh, seven coaches came and went, managing a record of 73–124–17 during this time. Better days were coming though, in the form of a head coach named William Leckonby. Leckonby arrived in time for the 1946 season and within a year, had the fortunes reversed, Leckonby’s teams won 16 of their next 27 from 1947–1949. This set the table for Lehigh’s first undefeated season,1950 and that team went 9–0, defeating Delaware, Carnegie Tech and Lafayette by a combined 125 –0. Overall, the team outscored opponents by a score of 301 –77, the team was led by the backfield tandem of Dick Gabriel and Dick Doyne

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Georgetown Hoyas football
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The Georgetown Hoyas football team represents Georgetown University in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision level of college football. Like other sports teams from Georgetown, the team is named the Hoyas and they play their home games at Cooper Field on the Georgetown University campus in Washington, D. C. The first football team at Georgetown was formed on November 1,1874, by the 1940s, Georgetown played in the Orange Bowl, where they lost 14–7 to Mississippi State. As the college became more expensive after World War II. The Hoyas last successful season was 1949, when they lost in the Sun Bowl against Texas Western. After a 2–7 season in 1950, Georgetown attempted to salvage its program by softening its schedule, replacing major opponents such as Penn State, Miami, and Tulsa with Richmond, Bucknell, and Lehigh. The program was losing too much money, however, and on March 22,1951 the Universitys president canceled the football program, in 1962, Georgetown allowed its students to start a football program as an exhibition-only club sport. New games began in 1964, with their first match drawing 8,000 spectators to see the Hoyas host another university with an unofficial program, Varsity football resumed in 1970 at what later became known as the Division III level. In 1976, Georgetown began a rivalry game with the Catholic University Cardinals for the Steven Dean Memorial Trophy. In 1993, the joined the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. With eight wins, the won the conference championship outright in 1997. The team was invited to play in the 1997 Sports Network Cup, in 1999 the team joined the Patriot League, a conference that currently prohibits its members from awarding football scholarships. As a non-scholarship FCS program, many of Georgetowns non-conference games are against Ivy League schools, without the ability to add scholarships, Georgetowns program fell on hard times in the 2000s. Georgetown had by far the lowest football budget in the Patriot League, Georgetown also had the lowest number of Patriot League FSEs which measures the financial aid given out to its Varsity football players. During its first decade in the Patriot League, the team was unable to have a winning season. From 1891 until 1893, the known as Boundary Field played host to Georgetown football. From 1921 until 1950, Griffith Stadium played host to Georgetown football, currently, the Hoyas play at Cooper Field, previously called Multi-Sport Field, which was upgraded from Harbin Field in 2003. The MSF has been awaiting further construction since 2005, when work was halted on completing permanent bleachers, as a result, it remains the smallest stadium in Division I football and has only temporary bleachers as a part of the current set-up

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Franklin & Marshall College
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Franklin & Marshall College is a private co-educational residential liberal arts college in the Northwest Corridor neighborhood of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. It employs 175 full-time faculty members and has a student body of approximately 2,324 full-time students, F&M was ranked 37 on U. S. News & World Reports 2014 list of liberal arts colleges. The New York Times ranked F&M 26th in a ranking of The Most Economically Diverse Top Colleges in 2014, in 2011 F&M was ranked as the 4th Most Rigorous College/University on Newsweeks The Daily Beast. Forbes 2009 list of Americas Best Colleges ranked the school 36th overall and it was also ranked #1 in the nation for Faculty accessibility by The Princeton Review in 2003. The college is a member of the Centennial Conference, for the Class of 2012 Admissions Cycle, the acceptance rate dropped to 35. 9%, making it F&Ms most selective class yet while increasing the admissions profile. The average SAT score is 1311, which combines the Critical Reading, the average class size is 19 students, and the student-faculty ratio is 9,1. Franklin College was chartered on June 6,1787, in Lancaster and it was named for Benjamin Franklin, who donated £200 to the new institution. Its first trustees included five signers of the Declaration of Independence, the schools first courses were taught on July 16,1787, with instruction taking place in both English and German, making it the first bilingual college in the United States. Franklin College was also Americas first coeducational institution, with its first class of students composed of 78 men and 36 women, among the latter was Richea Gratz, the first Jewish female college student in the United States. However, the policy was soon abandoned and it would take 182 years before women were again permitted to enroll in the school. In July 1789, Franklin College ran into difficulty as its annual tuition of four pounds was not enough to cover operating costs. Enrollment began to dwindle to just a few students and eventually the college existed as nothing more than a meeting of the Board of Trustees. In an effort to help the school, an academy was established in 1807. For the next three decades, Franklin College and Franklin Academy managed to limp along financially, with instructors supplementing their income with private tutoring, in 1835, the schools Debating Society was renamed Diagnothian Literary Society at the suggestion of seminary student Samuel Reed Fisher. In June of that year, Diagnothian was divided into two friendly rivals to encourage debate, Diagnothian retained its original name, while the new society was named Goethean, in honor of German philosopher and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The two organizations sponsored orations and debated politics, philosophy and literature and they merged in 1955, but became separate entities again in 1989. The Diagnothian Society is the oldest student organization on campus, having grown from a Reformed Church academy, Marshall College opened in 1836 in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. The school was named for the fourth Chief Justice of the United States John Marshall and it was founded with the belief that harmony between knowledge and will was necessary to create a well-rounded person

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Thompson Stadium
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Robert Means Thompson Stadium was an American football stadium in the eastern United States, located on the campus of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Constructed in 1914, it was the stadium of the Navy Midshipmen from 1924 through 1958. He created or led several athletically-based organizations at the academy until his death and it was succeeded by the larger Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in 1959, the current venue of Navy football. Before its conversion to a stadium, the Thompson Stadium site was an unused area on the south end campus. Work on the began in 1914, and was finished later the same year. The seating capacity was 12,000, and it underwent few changes during its entire use and it was surrounded by a regulation quarter-mile running track, and only had a single seating section, along the southwest sideline. The field had a northwest-southeast alignment, at a slightly above sea level. During the 1940s, the Naval Academy began to look for options to construct a new, the schools directors collected money to build the stadium, for which much support was given by the public, due to the lack of seating at Thompson Stadium. Construction on the new stadium began in 1958 and it opened in September 1959, use of Thompson Stadium ended for varsity games, but it remained until the early 1980s, when it was replaced by Lejeune Hall, the venue for USNA water sports. From its origins until 1931, Thompson Stadium went without a name and that year on May 30, the stadium was formally dedicated as the Robert Means Thompson Stadium, for the benefactor and alumnus of the Naval Academy. Born in March 1849, Thompson graduated from the Naval Academy as part of the class of 1868 and he was commissioned as an officer in the Navy in 1869, but retired two years later to pursue a career in law. In addition, he served as the head of several Naval Academy organizations, the Naval Academys football team played their first game 138 years ago in 1879, an away game against the Baltimore Athletic Club, which ended in a scoreless tie. The Navy football team, not yet known as the midshipmen, did not have an official stadium

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Memorial Stadium (Baltimore)
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Memorial Stadium was a sports stadium in Baltimore, Maryland, that formerly stood on 33rd Street on an oversized block also bounded by Ellerslie Avenue, 36th Street, and Ednor Road. The rebuilt multi-sport stadium, when reconstruction was completed in the summer of 1954, the stadium was also known as The Old Gray Lady of 33rd Street, and also as The Worlds Largest Outdoor Insane Asylum. C. Canadian Football League, 1994–1995 Baltimore Ravens, National Football League, 1996–1997 Baltimore City College vs Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, Thanksgiving Day 1954–1999, Calvert Hall College vs Loyola Blakefield Thanksgiving Day 1957–1999, known as Calvert Hall vs. Loyola, the Turkey Bowl. Army vs Navy United States Military Academy, vs. United States Naval Academy, Memorial Stadium started out in life as Municipal Stadium, also known as Baltimore Stadium, and as Venable Stadium. Designed by Pleasants Pennington and Albert W. Lewis, it was built in 1922 over a period at the urging of the Mayor. It was also known for a time as Babe Ruth Stadium, after the then-recently deceased Hall of Famer and Baltimore native. Seating 31,000 at the time, the new stadium consisted of a single, horseshoe-shaped deck, with the end facing north. A roofless upper deck was added later in 1953–1954 when the St, during the 90-minute parade, the new Birds signed autographs, handed out pictures and threw styrofoam balls to crowd as the throngs marched down several major city streets ending on East 33rd Street. Inside, more than 46,000 watched the Orioles beat the Chicago White Sox, 3–1, to win their home opener, both the new Orioles and the Colts had some great successes over the next few decades, winning several championships. Among the Colts greats were quarterback Johnny Unitas, wide receiver Raymond Berry, over the next few decades, both teams became among the winningest and competitive franchises in their sports, sending a number of players to their respective Halls of Fame. On May 2,1964, an accident involving a stadium escalator caused the death of a teenaged girl. That day, the Orioles held Safety Patrol Day to honor schoolchildren who served in their schools safety patrols, in which helped their fellow students travel to. For the event,20,000 schoolchildren from around the state of Maryland were given admission to the Orioles game against the Cleveland Indians. The moving steps cut and mutilated the children until a stadium usher, 65-year-old Melville Gibson, finally reached the escalators emergency shut-off switch and turned the escalator off. Previously, the switch had been moved to a wall across from the escalator in order to prevent pranksters from turning it off while people were on it. A 14-year-old girl, Annette S. Costantini, was killed in the accident,46 other children were injured, some seriously. The gate at the top of the escalator — called a people channeler — had apparently been left there after a previous event, the gates purpose was to control the flow of people getting onto the escalator. Children heading for the deck then got onto the escalator

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Commander-in-Chief's Trophy
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The Commander-in-Chiefs Trophy is awarded to each seasons winner of the American college football triangular series among the teams of the U. S. Military Academy, the U. S. Naval Academy, and U. S. Air Force Academy. The Navy–Air Force game is played on the first Saturday in October, the Army–Air Force game on the first Saturday in November. In the event of a tie, the award is shared, along with the Florida Cup, the Michigan MAC Trophy, and the Beehive Boot, the Commander-in-Chiefs Trophy is one of the few three-way rivalries that awards a trophy to the winner. Through 2016, the Air Force Falcons hold the most trophy victories at 20, the Army Black Knights trail with only six, their last came 21 years ago in 1996. The trophy has been shared on four occasions, last in 1993, prior to 1972, Air Force played Army in odd years and Navy in even years. The Commander-in-Chiefs trophy was the brainchild of Air Force General George B, first awarded in 1972 by President Richard Nixon, the trophy itself is jointly sponsored by the alumni associations of the three academies. The trophy is named for the U. S. President, the President has personally awarded the trophy on a number of occasions. During the 1980s, for instance, President Ronald Reagan presented the award in an annual White House ceremony, in 1996, President Bill Clinton presented the trophy to the last winning Army team at Veterans Stadium after the Army–Navy Game. From 2003 to 2007, President George W. Bush presented the trophy to Navy teams at ceremonies in the White House. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the winner of the trophy, if eligible, was granted an invitation to the Liberty Bowl in Memphis. Navy was the first to five wins in 1981, while Army won its fifth in 1988, Air Force has led since their win in 1990, and dominated through 2002, with sixteen wins to Armys six. Winless in the series for two decades, Navy reeled off seven consecutive sweeps from 2003 through 2009 to draw close. In the annual series, Air Force plays a home game, Army–Navy is a neutral site game, usually in a major eastern city and most frequently in Philadelphia, it was last played on campus in 1942 and 1943, during World War II travel restrictions. The other two federal service academies – the U. S. Coast Guard Academy and U. S, Merchant Marine Academy – do not participate in this competition. The Coast Guard Bears and Merchant Marine Mariners have a football rivalry for the Secretaries Cup. The trophy itself stands 2.5 feet high and weighs a hefty 170 lb, the design consists of three silver footballs in a pyramid-like arrangement, set on a circular base, with three arc-shaped sections cut out — one for each academy. In each of the cut-out areas stands a silver figurine of the mascot of one of the academies, in front of small, beneath each of the three silver footballs is the crest of one of the three academies

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Crab Bowl Classic
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The two institutions, located in close proximity in the state of Maryland, first met for a football game in 1905. Since then, the series has often been marked by controversy, the winner of the game is awarded the Crab Bowl Trophy. Navy dominated the series early by winning the first eight games, Maryland secured its first win in 1931 at a neutral site in Washington, D. C. After two more meetings, the series was suspended in 1934 when the Maryland administration protested a play, the teams met again in 1950 when Navy had a last-minute opening in its schedule. The Terrapins won three games from 1950 to 1952, and the Midshipmen won three from 1958 to 1963. During the 1964 game, a Maryland player twice flashed an obscene gesture, after contractual obligations were fulfilled with the following years game, the series was put on hiatus for 40 years. Maryland and Navy finally resumed the rivalry in 2005 and again in 2010, the Naval Academy and the University of Maryland are separated by about 30 miles in the state of Maryland. The schools by their nature, a Federal service academy and a university, differ radically in terms of culture. For many years, the University of Maryland possessed the reputation of a blue-collar, some students viewed the Naval Academy, with its strictly regimented culture, as elitist. A former Terrapins linebacker, Jerry Fishman, believed that many Midshipmen thought they were far superior to the Maryland redneck coal miners, a former Navy fullback, Pat Donnelly, said that compared to a public institution, was night and day. I think there was a feeling of dislike, but it wasn’t personal. According to former Maryland head coach Ralph Friedgen, the sentiment at Navy has been that beating their archrival Army is a must, but Maryland is a necessity. Darryl Hill, who attended schools and broke the color barrier on each team, said that the Midshipmen had a saying that beating Army is great. Despite a lopsided start in the early 20th century, the Terps, between 1931 and 1965, Navy won six and Maryland five games. In the 2005 season opener, Navy was coming off one of its best seasons in history with a 10–2 record the previous year, Maryland struggled later in 2005, but proved a competitive match for Navy and achieved a last-minute win, 23–20. In addition to proximity and competitiveness, the rivalry was fueled by controversial incidents both on and off the field, Maryland supporters long held that Navy players used unnecessary roughness during play, a charge counter-accused by the Academy after the 1963 game. Some Midshipmen would travel to College Park to meet female students, pranks and vandalism were commonplace on both campuses and exacerbated the already tense situation between Maryland and Navy. On October 25,1905, the then known as the Maryland Agricultural Farmers traveled to Annapolis to meet the Navy Admirals for the first time

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Bill the Goat
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Bill the Goat is the mascot of the United States Naval Academy. The mascot is a goat and is also represented by a costumed midshipman. There is also a statue of the goat in the north end zone of Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. This statue also plays a role in Army Week traditions, the Navy Monkey was the first mascot. It was the animal of U. S. Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft. Bancrofts favorite animal, the monkey stayed the primary mascot -- along with a cat -- from 1847 to 1851, the first Bill the Goat appeared in 1893. Currently, Bill XXXIII reigns as the 36th mascot and is the 33rd goat to be named Bill, for centuries, ships sailed with livestock in order to provide sailors with fresh food. Ships in the British and early American navies often carried goats, to eat the garbage and other food and to return milk. The first usage of billy goat for a male goat occurs in the 19th century replacing the older term he-goat, and the first creature, animal or otherwise, to circle the earth twice was a goat that traveled first with Wallis and then with Captain Cook. After the Cook trip she was allowed to retire, there is a legend that a Navy ship once sailed with a pet goat, and that the goat died during the cruise. The officers preserved the skin to have it mounted when they returned to port, two young ensigns were entrusted with the skin. On their way to the taxidermist, they stopped by the United States Naval Academy to watch a football game, at halftime, for reasons the legend does not specify, one ensign decided to dress up in the goat skin. The crowd appreciated the effort, and Navy won the game, in 1893, a live goat named El Cid made his debut as a mascot at the fourth Army–Navy Game. El Cid was a gift to the Brigade of Midshipmen from officers of the USS New York, with the goat, Navy gained a 6-3 win over Army that year, so he was adopted as part of the team. There were other mascots in those years, including a gorilla -- the very first mascot, however, the goat has served without interruption since 1904. In the early 1900s, the mascot was finally given a name. It was then that the goat was given the name Bill, the tradition continued during World War II. In 1968 Bill XVI, a gift from the United States Air Force Academy, Bill XVII, met the same fate in 1971

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Anchors Aweigh
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Anchors Aweigh is the fight song of the United States Naval Academy and march of the United States Navy. It was composed in 1906 by Charles A. Zimmermann with lyrics by Alfred Hart Miles, when he composed Anchors Aweigh, Zimmermann was a lieutenant, and had been bandmaster of the United States Naval Academy Band since 1887. Miles was Midshipman First Class at the Academy, in the class of 1907, another Academy Midshipman, Royal Lovell later wrote what would be adopted into the song as its third verse. To weigh anchor is to bring it aboard a vessel in preparation for departure, the phrase anchors aweigh is a report that the anchors are clear of the sea bottom and, therefore, the ship is officially underway. Anchors aweigh is often misspelled as Anchors away, leading to confusion of the terms, another confusion is evident in the spellings encountered both with and without apostrophe. Here, it is a matter of distinguishing the singular anchor + contraction of is from the plural, although the original aweigh is verbal and transitive, the aweigh used now is adjectival/adverbial in nature and meaning. Weigh as a means to bear or move, thus giving it several shades of meaning and derivation. This lends itself to obvious plays on words, as with Flip Wilsons old routine about Christopher Columbus, Columbus cried, a few minutes later, a crewman reported, Two thousand, one hundred thirty six pounds. The song was first played during the Army–Navy football game on December 1,1906, Navy won the game 10–0 before a crowd in excess of 30,000, their first win in the match up since 1900. Its lyrics were considered too specific to the Academy and not representative of the Navy at large and its melody was also slightly rewritten by Domenico Savino. The song has a joyful, brisk melody, and it has been adopted by other navies around the world. Roll up the score, Navy, anchors aweigh, sail Navy down the field and sink the Army, sink the Army grey. Revised Lyrics of 1926 by George D. Lottman, Stand, Navy, out to sea, Fight our battle cry, Well never change our course, roll out the TNT, Anchors Aweigh. Sail on to victory And sink their bones to Davy Jones, Anchors Aweigh, my boys, Anchors Aweigh. Farewell to college joys, we sail at break of day-ay-ay-ay, through our last night on shore, drink to the foam, Until we meet once more. Heres wishing you a happy voyage home, revised Lyrics of 1997 by MCPON John Hagan, USN which is used today in the fleet, Stand Navy out to sea, fight our battle cry. Well never change our course so vicious foes steer shy-y-y-y, roll out the TNT, anchors aweigh. Sail on to victory, and sink their bones to Davy Jones, Anchors Aweigh, my boys, Anchors Aweigh

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United States Naval Academy Band
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The United States Naval Academy Band was officially founded in November 1852. Previously, there had been a band since the founding of the Naval Academy in 1845, consisting of a fifer, the band consists of US Navy career musicians. The band is required to blend tradition and change into a variety of musical styles. The Naval Academy Band is one of two Navy premier bands, the Washington DC Navy Band and the Academy Band is staffed based on auditions not limited to military personnel. Winners of the auditions are required to boot camp. Upon completion they are awarded the rank of E-6, Petty Officer First Class and they have been granted an exemption to wear the same uniform as a Chief Petty Officer to maintain a consistent appearance. The crest on their hats are a musicians lyre and their career can be entirely at this one duty station. The Directors are the officers and the only members who are subject to transfers. The band has been termed the Chiefs Band by midshipmen to distinguish it from the Naval Academy Drum and Bugle Corps, the Concert Band performs a year-round concert series. Performances include programs of light classics, popular melodies, patriotic songs, smaller ensembles are featured in the Chamber Music Series, a variety of recitals planned and presented by individual band members. From its 66 members, the band has two groups, brass and woodwind quintets, trombone and clarinet quartets, tuba and percussion ensembles. A succession of 26 leaders and hundreds of instrumentalists have been members of the band. Armed Forces School of Music U. S. Navy Steel Band United States military bands Anchors Aweigh Eternal Father, Strong to Save United States Naval Academy Band Navy Music History USS Arizonas last band

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2007 Navy vs. Notre Dame football game
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The 2007 Navy vs. Notre Dame football game ended the longest all-time college football consecutive wins streak by one team over another. On November 3,2007, the Navy Midshipmen defeated the Notre Dame Fighting Irish 46–44 in triple-overtime at Notre Dames home field, Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Notre Dame came into this annual game with 43 straight wins against Navy since the last loss in 1963. With the win, Navy improved to 5–4 and Notre Dame fell to 1–8 on the season, the Navy–Notre Dame football rivalry is the longest running college football series between two teams not in the same conference. The 2007 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team began the season with a 33–3 loss to Georgia Tech and it was the most lopsided loss Notre Dame had ever suffered in a season-opening game. Notre Dame then lost to Penn State, Michigan, Michigan State, Notre Dames worst opening before 2007 was 0–3. The Fighting Irish snapped their streak with a win at UCLA but then lost to Boston College. With only four season games remaining, Notre Dame was assured of a losing season. The 2007 Navy Midshipmen football team was off to a better start and they had achieved victories against Temple, Duke, Air Force, and Pittsburgh. Losses against Rutgers, Ball State, Wake Forest, and Delaware put them 4–4 on the season, with four games remaining in the season, Navy needed to win at least two in order to be invited to a bowl game. The Poinsettia Bowl had arranged for the Midshipmen to play in that if they reached six wins. At the time, both teams played NCAA Division I FBS football as independent teams, unaffiliated with any conference, the game was televised nationally by NBC, which has the exclusive TV broadcast rights to Notre Dame home games. Notre Dame made the first score of the game, a 3-yard touchdown run by Robert Hughes and it was the only score of the first quarter. Each team scored a pair of touchdowns in the second quarter, Navy scored a touchdown in the third quarter but they missed the extra point. It was the score of the third quarter. In the fourth quarter, Navys Chris Kuhar-Pitters collected a fumble at the Notre Dame 16 yard line, kaipo-Noa Kaheaku-Enhada rushed for the two-point conversion to take a 28–21 lead – their first of the game. Notre Dame tied the score with a touchdown, the gamble backfired in spectacular fashion when Navy sacked quarterback Evan Sharpley, with Midshipmen linebacker Ram Vela literally leaping over a blocker to assist in the sack. In the first overtime, Notre Dame won the coin toss, Navy scored a touchdown and their extra point was good. The Irish replied with a touchdown and extra point to bring up the second overtime and this time, each team scored a field goal, necessitating a third overtime

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2007 Navy vs. North Texas football game
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The mid-season, non-conference game was the first meeting between the two teams, both came into the game with highly rated offenses and poorly rated defenses. Before the game the Midshipmen had a 5–4 record, most recently defeating the Notre Dame Fighting Irish to break a streak of 43 consecutive losses to that team, another win would qualify them for a bowl game. The Mean Green held a 1–7 record, and could not become bowl eligible by winning its remaining games, during the first quarter of the game, the Mean Green led the Midshipmen by as much as 18 points. In the second quarter the teams combined to score 63 points, setting records for most points scored in a quarter and a half. The Midshipmen rallied around a strong rushing offense to take the lead at the beginning of the quarter. Navy held the lead for the remainder of the game, with the win the Midshipmen improved to 6–4, making the team bowl-eligible for the fifth straight year. After finishing the season with a record of 8–4 they played in the 2007 Poinsettia Bowl. The loss against Navy gave the Mean Green a 1–8 record, in their ninth game the team defeated the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in triple overtime, ending a 43-year losing streak in the Notre Dame–Navy rivalry and improving the teams record to 5–4. With three games remaining in the season, Navy needed to win at least one more to become bowl eligible, sponsors had arranged for Navy to play in the Poinsettia Bowl if they won six games. The Midshipmen defense allowed an average of 38.8 points per game, after losing to the Arkansas Razorbacks 66–7, Dodge replaced Meager with redshirt freshman Giovanni Vizza. After four games as a starter, Vizza had set a new passing record for freshmen at North Texas, coming into the game, the Mean Green ranked 12th nationally in passing offense. Dodges defensive squad, however, continued to struggle, the team had allowed an average of 209 yards of rushing per game and it also ranked 119th in scoring defense, allowing opponents to score an average of 46.5 points per game. Coming off a bye week, the team entered the game with a 1–7 record, the game was scheduled to begin at 3 p. m. Central Time at Fouts Field in Denton, Texas, before the opening kickoff, the Green Brigade Marching Band performed My Country, Tis of Thee and The Star-Spangled Banner. At the conclusion of the anthem, four United States Navy F/A-18 Hornet aircraft performed a flyover past the stadium. The Mean Green recovered a kick on the ensuing kickoff. After the Midshipmen kicked a goal on their first possession, North Texas added another touchdown. Navy scored a touchdown with seven remaining in the quarter

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1879 Navy Midshipmen football team
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The 1879 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy in the 1879 college football season. The team was the first intercollegiate football squad to represent the United States Naval Academy, the team had no coach, as it was entirely student-operated, however, it was captained by squad member Bill Maxwell. The team played just a game, which was a scoreless tie with the Baltimore Athletic Club. The team was entirely student operated, and was not supported by the Naval Academys faculty, the school would not have another football squad until 1882. The contest more closely resembled soccer, with scoring by kicking a ball into the opponents net. The game developed slowly, the first rules were drafted in October 1873, even though the number of teams participating in the sport increased, the game was still effectively controlled by the College of New Jersey, who claimed eight national championships in ten years. Only Yale presented any form of challenge, claiming four national championships in the time period. The birth of football at the Naval Academy is debated among historians, the most accepted occurrence was in 1869, when a midshipman returned from his leave with a football. While throwing the ball with a friend, it was dropped, a contest was eventually organized, which ended abruptly when the ball was kicked into the Severn River. Regardless, the sport had been banned for years prior to 1879. There were two efforts to establish a Naval Academy football team in 1879. The first was guided by first-classman J. H. Robinson, the team played the sport under rules that made it much closer to soccer, where the players were permitted only to kick the ball in order to advance it. The second effort, headed by first-classman William John Maxwell was more successful in its efforts, Maxwell met with two of his friends, Tunstall Smith and Henry Woods, who played for the Baltimore Athletic Club and officially challenged their team to a game with the Naval Academy. A team was formed from academy first-classmen, which Maxwell led as a manager, trainer, the team would wake up and practice before reveille and following drill and meals. The squad received encouragement from some of the faculty, who allowed them to eat a late dinner and this was against the direct orders of the school superintendent, who had banned football and similar activities. The years sole contest was played on December 11 against the Baltimore Athletic Club, the oppositions team was reportedly composed of players from Princeton, Yale, Pennsylvania, and Johns Hopkins. The Naval Academy hosted the Baltimore team on a temporary field drawn on part of the cow pasture. Rules decided upon between the teams established that the game was to be played under rugby rules

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1884 Navy Midshipmen football team
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The 1884 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy in the 1884 college football season. The team was the intercollegiate football squad to represent the United States Naval Academy. The squad was captained by rusher Jim Kittrell, the teams single game was a 9 to 6 defeat of rival-school Johns Hopkins. The season continued a seven-season, eight game rivalry between the Naval Academy and Johns Hopkins and it was the final season that a Naval Academy team would go unbeaten and untied. According to biographer C. Douglas Kroll, the first evidence of a form of football at the United States Naval Academy came in 1857, the contest more closely resembled soccer, with teams scoring by kicking the ball into the opponents net, and lacked a uniform rules structure. The game developed slowly, the first rules were drafted in October 1873, even though the number of teams participating in the sport increased, the game was still effectively controlled by the College of New Jersey, who claimed eight national championships in ten years. Only Yale presented any form of challenge, claiming four national championships in the time period. The Naval Academys first ever team was fielded in 1879. The squad was entirely student-operated, receiving no support from Naval Academy officials. The team was funded by its members and their fellow students. The 1879 team participated in just one game, which resulted in a scoreless tie and it was played against the Baltimore Athletic Club, apparently on the Academy superintendents cow pasture. Navy would not field a team in 1880 or 1881. When football returned to the academy in 1882, the squad was led by player-coach Vaulx Carter, the 1883 season resulted in Navys first ever loss, a 2–0 defeat by Johns Hopkins. The sole game of Navys 1884 season was the competition against rival Johns Hopkins. In what was the season where the rivalry was the only game of the year. The game, played on November 27, was hosted by the Academy, in an unusual agreement between the two schools, the contest was played entirely under rugby rules. In the first half, Hopkins scored twice, on a touchdown from Mr. Bonsall, the game was somewhat marred by one of the players suffering a broken collarbone and another spraining an ankle. The 1884 Naval Academy team was made up of players at four different positions

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1885 Navy Midshipmen football team
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The 1885 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy in the 1885 college football season. The team was the intercollegiate football squad to represent the United States Naval Academy. The squad was captained by halfback Cornelius Billings, the year began with a blowout victory over St. Johns College, but was followed by close losses to Johns Hopkins University and the Princeton Tigers reserves squad. The season continued a seven-season, eight game rivalry between the Naval Academy and Johns Hopkins, and began a ten-game, seven-year rivalry with St. Johns, the Naval Academys first ever football team was fielded in 1879. The squad was entirely student-operated, receiving no support from Naval Academy officials. The team was funded by its members and their fellow students. The 1879 team participated in just one game, which resulted in a scoreless tie and it was played against the Baltimore Athletic Club, apparently on the Academy superintendents cow pasture. Navy would not field a team in 1880 or 1881. When football returned to the academy in 1882, the squad was led by player-coach Vaulx Carter, the 1883 season resulted in Navys first ever loss, a 2–0 defeat by Johns Hopkins. Navy returned the favor the following year, defeating Hopkins in a close 9–6 game, the Naval Academy scheduled three games for the 1885 season, breaking from the tradition of playing only Johns Hopkins. According to Morris Allison Bealle, Football at Annapolis had shed its swaddling clothes when the autumn of 1885 rolled around. Some of the faculty actually gave in and admitted that football might, at that, the first was played against St. Johns College, also located in Annapolis. The game kicked off a rivalry with St. Johns. The 1885 match was a 46–10 blowout victory over St. Johns, the second game of the season was the annual Thanksgiving Day match against Johns Hopkins. After winning the year, Navy fell to Johns Hopkins 12–8. The season concluded with the Naval Academy challenging the Princeton freshman team, the 1885 Naval Academy team was made up of thirteen players at four different positions. The Midshipmen would not participate in their first Rose Bowl until the 1923 season, as a result of the lack of a competition, there were no postseason games played after the 1885 season. According to statistics compiled by Billingsly, Houlgate, the National Championship Foundation, Parke Davis, the 1885 season brought Navys overall win–loss record to an even 3–3–1

The Navy Midshipmen football statistical leaders are individual statistical leaders of the Navy Midshipmen football …

Keenan Reynolds holds the NCAA record for rushing touchdowns, in addition to holding Navy's career records for rushing yards, rushing touchdowns, passing touchdowns, total offense yards, and total touchdowns.